June 1992
In This Issue
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Articles
France: An Ambivalent War Against Smoking
Even the French now worry about cigarettes, but attempts to curb smoking face some peculiarly Gallic obstacles
Taking the Offensive
The case for major changes in the way the United States confronts terrorism
Italy's Heartland: Feeling Protected and Happy in the Storybook Hills of the Marches
Classicism Without Irony: Harold Shapero Set His Musical Gifts Free by Sincerely Imitating the Masters
A Case for Reform
The Last of the Beautiful Rubes
The Emperor's Last Island
The Emperor's Last Island
Alias S. S. Van Dine
The Women Outside
Trick or Treat
Salaryman
Don't Look Round
The Living
Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat
The Culture of Contentment
The Puzzler
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary,published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary. The information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.
The June Almanac
Notes: A License to Print Money
Young countries just starting out find the world’s burgeoning nationhood industry ready to help— perhaps too ready
Business: Adventures in the Food Chain
When Wal-Mart, the retail giant, begins selling groceries in small-town America, what’s a Kroger to do?
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Washington: Taking the Offensive
The case for major changes in the way the United States confronts terrorism
The Words That Remade America: Lincoln at Gettysburg
In an act of “open-air sleight of hand,“ Lincoln created a new Constitution, revolutionized the Revolution, and gave us a country changed forever
As in the Days of the Prophets
Ichthyology
He gazed into the eyes of the orangestriped fish and for a moment felt as if he, too, were floating, rocking, oddly out of place
Gratitude
Shortcut
The Border
In the second part of a two-part article the author continues his journey along the U.S.-Mexican border through the unslakable fields of the Imperial Valley and the grim industrial landscapes of Nogales, Juárez, and Matamoros: locales that exemplify the environmental, economic, and social consequences of the fact that Mexico is our neighbor
A Free-Trade Primer
